After Eunuch Mo announced the decree, he was warmly received by the governor of Shandong and the political envoy, and Li Meng, the chief soldier of Shandong, naturally had a generous gift, and the small unhappiness encountered on the school field naturally disappeared.

I stayed in Jinan Mansion for a total of five days, and on the last night before leaving, several ordinary people in Jinan City suddenly appeared next to the Qincha Mansion, and Li Meng's guards outside were tightly guarded.

Eunuch Mo is completely relieved, coming to Shandong to announce the decree was originally a troublesome matter, but fortunately, all the errands in the open and in the secret were completed this time. Listening to the secret spy report of these Jinyi guards, it was said that although Li Meng, the general soldier of Shandong, was a little domineering, Weifu used it for his own use, and even looked down on the governor and the guard, but he had no dissent, he was a rough soldier, his background was very low, and he had no knowledge, and he knew that he grabbed women with money and power, and had fun with those two famous prostitutes of Qin Huai every day, but he was very vulgar and unwritten, and made a lot of jokes, for example, he wrote some limericks, and his coke. From this point of view, the situation in Shandong is quite normal, and Lao Mo himself does not have to bear any responsibility.

These are all hidden stakes of Jinyiwei ambushing here, and the credibility of what they say should be very high, Eunuch Mo thought to himself, if he reported these news to Jingshi, the emperor and ministers would definitely be very relieved.

The next day, when Eunuch Mo left, the governor led a group of civil and military officers to send each other off respectfully, politely. The locals in the Qincha team felt that this time it was not in vain, and they couldn't see that Shandong was a poor place, but they were still very willing to spend on gifts, and the errands were completed completely, and the walk was also high

When the hidden stakes of the "Jinyi Guard" came out, they walked out of the street where the Qincha lived, and were taken away by the armed Yanding, locked in the house, and recounted what they had said on the Qincha's side tonight.

It's easy to say that the newspaper and the like are written by the bookstores of the Jiaozhou camp themselves. What is said is arranged, but it is always necessary to ask for certainty.

The words of several people, slightly different, were repeatedly questioned, and people couldn't help but break down, but the interrogation ended quickly, because these people spoke exactly the same language. There is no possibility of counterfeiting.

Jinan's Jinyiwei and Dongchang spies can't talk about secrecy and hiding at all, and the people living in the city of Jinan after the population was looted by the Tartars. Either the military dependents of the Jiaozhou battalion, or the officials of the various civilian yamen, almost everyone is recorded in the Jiaozhou battalion.

Shandong Province, it is said that a brocade cloth guard thousand households will be set up. After this thousand households led their men to Jinan City, the situation was similar to that of Chen Min and other eunuchs, and they were directly encircled in the courtyard. In the beautiful name of "the place is not quiet, for the sake of safety", the brocade clothes guard thousands of households really do not believe in evil.

But after his subordinates went out several times and did not come back, the people up and down were scared, and went to the yamen of the Jinan prefect to inquire, and they said that the law and order in the city was not quiet, and there were often bandits haunting, so we could send a messenger to investigate. But don't get your hopes up too much.

Go to the armies inside the city. The answer of the Jiaozhou battalion is simple, we are soldiers. He is not responsible for local law and order, and he is powerless.

At this time, the person who had reminded Jinyiwei that day was "kind" to say cool things, saying that he had already greeted him in advance, and he didn't listen to persuasion, so he suffered a loss this time......

After being frightened at first, I was honest for the next few months, and I ate and drank well every day, and I was full of money, and the only fly in the ointment was that I couldn't go out to make a fortune, but in this position, I heard some news more or less, and I knew that the Jiaozhou camp outside was a tiger and wolf that ate people and didn't spit out bones, or don't go to trouble.

The Jinyi guards stationed in various places had to submit a report to the imperial court every month, and all kinds of local situations and whether there were abnormal activities of officials were all the contents of the report.

The work here of Jinan Jinyi Wei Qianhu is relatively simple, what to report, what not to report, there are people specially written for them, after the seal is confirmed, and then arrange someone to help them send out, people under the eaves, must bow their heads, of course, if the person's neck is under the blade, it is even lower.

As for these secret agents in the city, these people have no official identity, and those who are disobedient are directly killed, obediently, and the treatment is no different from the Jinyi guards on the surface, they are all kept in captivity as pigs.

After Eunuch Mo left, the imperial court's "reward" for Shandong naturally could not be completed with a simple agitation on the school field, and after this will was framed, it would also be declared in the military camps stationed in Jiaozhou camps, so that the soldiers and horses everywhere could see the "reward" of the imperial court.

However, in addition to this declaration, there are also people who go to various armies to agitate, and the caliber is quite unified, "The marshal is so great, but the court is stingy, there are meritorious soldiers, each person gets only a dozen Wen, and the eunuchs are sent to clamp the ......" and so on, of course, the court made this matter, even if there is no agitation, everyone's mind is already cold, not to mention the incitement words that add fuel to the fire. In a few battalions, the battalion officers "made their own opinions" and set up an immortal tablet in the big camp, and every morning and evening, they all asked loudly: "Whose meal are we eating?" The soldier replied, "Eat Li Dashuai's meal!" Again, "Who should we contribute to?" The soldier replied again: "Contribute to Li Dashuai!" ”。 And these battalions, although they are located in various places, are battalions with more recruits and more soldiers from outside Jiaozhou......

This time, Emperor Chongzhen may indeed be thinking about the reason for the reward and will, and enveloped the soldiers and generals in Shandong, but Emperor Chongzhen has always taken it for granted, and this envelopment has really had the opposite effect.

The opposite effect is nothing, the key problem is that this will was fully used by Li Meng to fuel the fire from another direction, but it made the soldiers in Shandong recognize who is their food and clothing, and who gave them today.

Unlike the Taiping of Jinan, there was a tense atmosphere in other prefectures and counties in Shandong for the first time. This was also the first time that the Jiaozhou battalion had determined its control over Shandong.

However, the reason for this tense and uneasy atmosphere was none other than the Jiaozhou camp itself, and after the Manchurian spies in Dengzhou's capital city, the officials in charge of Shandong's internal affairs were all disgraced, and the decision was to strictly examine and self-correct, and at the same time, Li Menghui's instructions made many people realize the seriousness of the matter. ^^^^

Li Meng, the general soldier of Shandong, wants to be low-key and cautious in doing things, never publicizes his work, and always pays attention to the scale of his work, and tells his subordinates many times what is the fault. If you have done it, it is a wrong thing, and you must pay attention to proportion.

This time's order is clearly to let the people below do it, and the six words "Rather kill the wrong person, don't let it go" are full of Sen Sen's murderous aura, and at the same time, these people working below Shandong feel Li Meng's anger.

Since the marshal is angry, let's hurry up and seriously investigate. The inner account room took the lead, and Shandong Salt Gang and Lingshan Commercial Bank immediately took action and arranged detailed rules for detailed investigation in various places.

The salt gang and the commercial banks have their own points in each county in Shandong, and the commercial banks are on the bright side. The Salt Gang is in the dark, and they are well aware of the situation in various places and the ghosts, snakes and gods, and they take the lead, so they naturally know themselves and their opponents.

But the comptoirs and the Salt Gang were only making the rules. And give guidance, and it is the armed salt that really participates in the implementation, and now all parts of Shandong. The responsibilities of the county and the prefecture are mainly concentrated in civil affairs, and most of the responsibilities of public security have been replaced by armed salt ding.

Yanding is the predecessor of the Jiaozhou battalion, and its duty has always been to protect the safety of the land along the road and ensure the smooth progress of the private salt business in Shandong Province.

But now, I'm afraid that even blind thieves won't have the idea of fighting this illicit salt, but the armed salt ding is still retained, and the armed salt ding is now composed of several parts. Most of the officers were veterans of the Jiaozhou battalion. The soldiers were composed of the sons and daughters of powerful landlords who were attached to Li Meng's system.

These children are often too deeply imprinted by the family, and it is difficult for them to integrate into the collective when they enter the army. So exercise for a while among the armed salts.

There are also those who are not Zhuang Ding in the army, the recruitment standards of the Jiaozhou battalion are relatively strict, and there are many young people with relatively good conditions who have also been brushed down.

This kind of young and strong people who were marked as "inferior" at the time of conscription were basically absorbed into the ranks of the salt ding land, and the composition of the armed salt ding team was relatively complex, but the training was no worse than that of the army, and basically the army set of things was moved.

Although the armed Yanding did not have any opportunity to train themselves in actual combat, and their equipment was not as good as that of the regular army, it was completely sufficient to deal with the local chaos, and they themselves were local people in Shandong.

There are 50 people in small counties, 100 people in large counties, 200 people in state towns, 300 people stationed in transportation arteries and prefecture cities, as well as rivers and passes, as long as they are within Shandong, they must be stationed with armed salt.

The armed saltmen are now not only responsible for the transportation of salt, but now they also bear the burden of inspecting and taxing ordinary commodities and checking passers-by. At the same time, they also have to learn how to transport supplies, how to repair roads, and when it comes to wartime, they are the best helpers of the Jiaozhou battalion, the so-called work team, combat team, and production team.

Although the armed salt officials only have the obligation to "help" the local officials to maintain law and order, in fact, whoever has more people and whose power is greater, who will dominate public security, and whoever has the big stick in his hand will speak louder. If the county officials have a way, then the master can raise dozens of them, and they can barely suppress the surrounding county seats, but the means of holding money are nothing more than fire consumption, water consumption and the like, all of which are additional levies on top of the positive tax to do local administrative expenses, the general magistrate, that is, one or two positive taxes to take three to five percent of the fire consumption, barely enough, some powerful magistrates, one or two positive taxes he can take three dollars to go, which is so rich. But now the Jiaozhou camp was born, a big family, and even the tax could not be collected, so the county magistrates had to take the Yulu every day to make a cup of tea and squat in the yard, either a game of chess with the county from dawn to dark in the morning, or squatting on the ground to watch the ants climb. Who has the leisure to close what security. Naturally, the armed salt is actually the dominant one in the maintenance of law and order, and he also has enough say, or the only right to speak.

Arming the salters is an effective guarantee for the Jiaozhou battalion to maintain his civil affairs system.

Li Meng ordered a strict investigation of the local authorities to see if there were any spies mixed in from everywhere, and the armed saltmen who were already responsible for public security were carried out as a matter of course.

When the Jiaozhou battalion army was still in Henan, the investigation of the armed salt Ding had begun, and the method of investigation was very simple, the new people who moved here. In this era, everyone is heavy on the countryside, nothing is a big deal, and they are easily reluctant to leave their hometown.

There are two kinds of large numbers of people who have migrated around Shandong, one is the displaced people who have left their homes due to the famine, and these people have been resettled in Tuntian Tianzhuang. There is also a type of Liao people who came from Liao Town, and most of these people are now absorbed into the army and workshops.

In addition to these two people, the new immigrants who have moved in in the past two years are suspicious. However, the armed saltmen certainly examined these people in detail, but they did not focus all their efforts on this, and in some places the new immigrants moved in with no more than four or five families. But the armed salters are still in full swing.

At present, Shandong is firmly controlled by Li Meng, and it is Dengzhou, Laizhou, Qingzhou, and the southern part of Jinan, while in other provinces, although the Jiaozhou battalion has garrisons and granges. However, the local large farms were all under the control of other landlords, for example, the Kong family owned large tracts of land in Yanzhou and Jinan, and in the city of Rongyang, the king of Lu occupied others. Moreover, the land of Yanzhou Mansion is the best in the whole of Shandong.

Confucius Mansion, that is the desire of the people of the world, who dares to move a little finger, the existence of natural ashes, and King Lu is an important town of the pro-domain, and he is also a behemoth. As Li Meng, the commander-in-chief of Shandong, he still has to respect the king's affairs and force them too badly. It can only be because they are there. But in the territory he firmly controlled, it was not completely noiseless.

Although the official roads are occupied by Jiangnan literati. However, Shandong is located between the north and the south, and there are still more officials than other provinces, so there are many officials at home, and these people are also polite to them in the local government, and there are also some literati with wealthy families, as well as people who are officials outside.

The above-mentioned kinds, coupled with those who are hard-brained and criticize the Jiaozhou battalion every day, are the voices of disharmony in the territory under the jurisdiction of the Jiaozhou battalion.

After Li Meng's instruction of "I'd rather kill the wrong one and don't let it go" returned to Shandong, the first place to see this order was the inner tent room, and the girls were quite shocked when they saw it, and they had no idea for a while, but there was also a person beside them who was in charge of the whole - the old eunuch Liu Fulai. When the old eunuch was in the middle of the palace in Beijing, the position of the internal eunuch had a lot to do with institutions such as Dongchang Jinyiwei, and he naturally had a set of rules and regulations in his heart for this kind of cleaning and inventory.

Naturally, we cannot relax our efforts to infiltrate the spies in Shandong, but we can use this excuse to investigate those families and forces that are at odds with the Jiaozhou camp and will have hidden dangers.

Armed salt Ding is a large-scale inventory everywhere, for example, some prefectures and counties between Qingzhou and Yanzhou, deep in the local area6, neither by the sea nor by the canal, and there are no army camps and workshops around, such a place, as long as the spies are not stupid, will not come to this kind of place to take root and lurk.

Whoever has complaints about the soldiers and horses in Shandong, who has an opinion about Li Meng, the general of Zhendong, and who has a strange yin and yang in Shandong, the Shandong Salt Gang and the Lingshan Commercial Bank will know a little bit, and this inventory is based on the list of these people one by one.

Zhishi officials, the relatives of officials, those landlords and gentry who were damaged by the measures of the Jiaozhou camp, and those who read are basically rich families, and the poor people are almost all saved because of Li Meng's Tuntian policy, and under the military control, no one dares to talk nonsense, and a salt leader even shouted the slogan "Everyone has to pass the test, and there is no one in the world who is innocent".

That is, these subordinates who are not in the Jiaozhou camp, and they feel that they are qualified to speak, dare to speak, these people are all rich households, and the four words of being rich and unkind are not empty words. These people are more or less black-hearted. And in a year like this, if you want to stay rich, you generally can't be too soft-hearted.

Even if there are no problems, in the world, who doesn't make some mistakes, as long as there are mistakes, then you can be deeply compatible, and you will be in the list of armed salt dings, even if you find out that it is okay in the end, hundreds of armed salt dings will go around your village every day. ^^^^ no one can stand it, but they don't eat you, drink you, take you, and they all have a reason to say that the sky is broken. As for whether this is considered an unlimited wave, the right of interpretation is in the hands of the Shandong governor's yamen, the Shandong political envoy, and the Shandong envoy.

Some of the local officials dare not take care of these crimes that have been investigated, and they are more lazy to take care of them. It's over with one eye open and one eye closed, and now it's all up to the filial piety of these people, and those gentry who are close to the Jiaozhou camp still pay attention to the magistrates.

Zhixian and Zhizhou also have a lot of complaints in their hearts. They have a common language with these people who were investigated by the armed salt ding, but this time they are all wilted, and they have to bow their heads under the low eaves. They all comforted themselves like this, and of course some people thought that the gentleman was no longer standing under the dangerous wall.

Some officials have a desire to protect their shortcomings. However, the governor's yamen, the political envoys' yamen, the military preparations, and the prefects' yamen all issued strict orders, demanding that the "righteous and brave" that is, the behavior of armed salt should be fully cooperated, and that lawbreakers should be severely punished and not allowed to be sheltered. Don't leave anything to chance. In the past, because there were too few people involved in the impeachment, he was beaten by the head of the old man. Today, we will categorically not tolerate it, impeaching one is impeachment, and impeaching a hundred people is also impeachment, and we will certainly not wronged a person who works hard, and we will definitely not let go of a person who is ineffective.

What's more, after the salters find out about the matter, they will not leave immediately, and they will have to wait for the local government to come up with a charter for disposal, and if the result is not to leave.

From September to the end of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, the whole of Shandong, in the area controlled by Li Meng, seemed to have been blown through a storm, and all the individuals and families who dissented were attacked, and it was the local government that they felt stood with them to deal with them.

Some people went bankrupt, some landed people suffered some flesh and skin, and some people were sternly warned, and the landlords and gentry who were already dead set on following the Jiaozhou camp felt happy for themselves. Those who have been silent and neutral also know that they should make a choice.

Even those wealthy landlords in Yanzhou Mansion and Dongchang Mansion, who were some distance from the Li Meng system, were all afraid and panicked.

They are not in Li Meng's system, they do have a lot of responsibilities, and they are very free, but they are sheltered, and they do not have such a strong force as Li Meng, looking at the surrounding places, it seems that the most powerful is still Li Meng, the general soldier of Shandong, not to mention that I recently heard that he cut off the heads of tens of thousands of thieves in Henan.

It's time to think about it for a long time, and people in Shandong who have an industry at home are thinking about this matter.

After this investigation, the efficiency of the Li Meng system in Shandong's civil affairs and economy has been greatly increased, and it has been smooth and unhindered.

Incidentally, the inventory of most of the provinces in Shandong found that there were more than 40 Tatars, all of whom lived in the towns on the border of Shandong, and there was no way to go deeper.

Back in mid-September, after Eunuch Mo left Shandong, Sun Chuanting, who had been silent for a long time, sent someone to invite Li Meng to go.

Immediately afterwards, he led the troops to the expedition, and before the expedition, he had instructed the guards Sun Chuanting that if the documents of the affairs of the Jiaozhou camp were to be read by themselves, they would also send a copy to Sun Chuanting, and ask this Mr. Sun what suggestions he had, and copy these suggestions for Eunuch Liu, Zhou Yang, and Ning Qiangui and others to read and reference. However, after Li Meng came back, the guards of Sun Chuanting reported that although the documents of different importances were always sent to Mr. Sun's house, Sun Chuanting never wrote a word on the documents, nor did he say a word.

After Eunuch Mo left, this invitation surprised Li Meng. Jiaozhou Yingming has been told to Sun Chuanting about all kinds of things, of course, he also wants this Mr. Sun to put forward opinions and suggestions, but Li Meng always feels that Sun Chuanting's request to see this time is to be cynical.

"Mr. Sun, I haven't seen you for a few months, why are you haggard like this!?"

Go to the house, there are not many changes in the courtyard, Sun Chuanting's two sons are obviously very energetic, and Sun Chuanting's second son is already a lot stronger, it is said that every day he follows the Jiaozhou battalion's pro-soldier training, and the pro-soldier who trained him always told Li Meng. This kid has a bit of talent.

But Sun Chuanting was even more haggard than when he was just rescued from the edict prison, although he had to be tidied up all the time, but he was still weak and abnormal, his cheeks were sunken, his eyes were red and silky, he was already thin and a little out of shape, Li Meng was really surprised after seeing it. blurted out that sentence.

After asking, Li Meng turned his head to greet his own soldiers, and said sharply:

"Go and call the men who guard this courtyard, this marshal is not here these days. What the hell did they do to Mr. Sun! ”

As soon as the soldier turned around, he heard Sun Chuanting open his mouth to stop him:

"Master Li should not be angry, and he will not eat other people's food, which is the old man's heart. That's why I made myself like this, it's okay, it's okay. It would be nice to eat more meals in a few days. ”

Originally, Li Meng was still a little worried that Sun Chuanting would go on a hunger strike to make his mind clear, although he planned to give up, but it would be a pity to let such a person die in front of him.

Hearing what the other party said, Li Meng couldn't help but feel happy in his heart, if Sun Chuanting said that this was true, it meant that his mentality had really changed.

Li Meng opened his mouth and smiled, and said softly:

"Mr. Sun. Regardless of civil and military. Whatever you want to do, if you don't have a strong body. But as far as everything is concerned, wait for me to invite you to come to Langzhong, take a good look, and be generous in terms of diet, don't save money for Li Mou......"

Sun Chuanting sat on the seat and hugged his fists, and said in an astringent voice:

"Thank you Lord Li for your concern, Sun's own body will naturally be cared for."

The scene was a little quiet, and the people served it with simple wine and food, Sun Chuanting seemed to have begun to recuperate his body, and prepared white porridge and some light side dishes for him, but Sun Chuanting's mind was obviously not on this meal, and when the next person left, he said:

"Has the official who passed the decree left Shandong?"

"I left the ground the day before yesterday, and it is estimated that I should be rewarded by the promotion of Banzai when I return to Jingshi, after all, he has done this errand completely, and Jingshi must be very satisfied. As soon as he asked about this, Li Meng couldn't help but smile on his face, the court's methods were clumsy, but he harbored evil intentions, but he used his strength to earn himself a good situation, and when he heard people ask, he couldn't help but say a few more words:

"Li is a salt dealer, he must have a shallow vision, give a miscellaneous general, he must be happy, these eight hundred taels of silver must not be regarded as ordinary silver, long live the silver given, of course, ten taels of gold from other places, promote a eunuch to be the town guard officer, that is also to treat Shandong as a big town, Li is grateful, grateful!"

Sun Chuanting was stunned, then showed a wry smile on his face, and said in a low voice:

"Today's saints, I always take things for granted, and I feel that I am wise and wise, and it is not this time to do such a foolish thing, but Lord Li, then again, this Qin is here, you have a little tighter grasp of the soldiers and horses in your hands, and you are also much more loyal below!"

Listening to the various changes in the other party's mentality and words, Li Meng's mood also changed a lot, and he couldn't help but make a funny move, got up and hugged his fist towards the north and said:

"It's all divine grace, and your subordinates are grateful."

"Ahem" Sun Chuanting was obviously choked, coughed on the other side, drank a mouthful of porridge, and then calmed down, and said with a smile:

"Lord Li is really a model of loyalty, if you tell these words to the princes of the imperial court in person, I don't know how many people will be dumbfounded."

"Mr. Sun, although Li's words are jokes, but they are also a little true, if there is no great government of the saint and the wisdom of the Yanyan Princes, how can Li go from the end of the micro step by step to today, I am indeed grateful in my heart!"

Sun Chuanting looked at Li Meng, who was smiling and talking eloquently on the other side, but thought in his heart: You have gone from humble to today's status, you may not be confused above, but you really have a destiny. As far as he could think, President Sun Chuan sighed and said leisurely:

"The old man has worked hard all his life, and he often boasts of his loyalty, but today he is a little confused, whether this labor and loyalty is for the world, or for the holy ......"